True. Ad blocking is also a stance against advertising per se. Reasons to block ads that may come before the tracking issue for a lot of people. In no particular order:
- Plain dislike of ads
- Miss targeted ads are (even more) annoying
- Malware
- Getting rid of visual clutter (from an aesthete's perspective)
- Irrelevance
- Browser speed
- Attempt to remove distraction
- Boycott / meaning harming a particular organisation’s finances
- A combination of those
- …
But tracking awareness is growing and resistance understandable. As users profiling grow, their liberty decrease.
- Plain dislike of ads
- Miss targeted ads are (even more) annoying
- Malware
- Getting rid of visual clutter (from an aesthete's perspective)
- Irrelevance
- Browser speed
- Attempt to remove distraction
- Boycott / meaning harming a particular organisation’s finances
- A combination of those
- …
But tracking awareness is growing and resistance understandable. As users profiling grow, their liberty decrease.